On Thursday PM Mateusz Morawiecki visited our Faculty. First, however, he met with the rector, prof. Arkadiusz Wójs, laid flowers at the monument of "All Co-creators, Defenders and Heroes of Solidarity" and visited the W4 laboratory.

PM at the Faculty

– I am very proud that in my hometown of Wrocław we are dealing with the development and combination of science and economy in such a modern form. It should be emphasized that the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology is a place with an extraordinary intensity of modern technologies, but also of future-oriented science – said Mateusz Morawiecki.

The Faculty was established on 15 September It has eight departments, 400 academic teachers, twelve fields of study with 5,000 students. It is not only the largest faculty dealing with IT and telecommunications in Poland, but also the largest faculty at the entire Wroclaw University of Science and Technology.

Research in the Faculty will be carried out in the rapidly developing fields of computer science related to Industry 4.0. As a result, it will be able to offer students modern teaching solutions that meet socio-economic needs.

Creating knowledge for the economy

– By establishing the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology we are fulfilling our mission of creating knowledge for the economy. It is the largest Polish intellectual cluster in this field. This is how our university is also reorganizing itself in order to be able to develop in the next decades – added Prof. Arkadiusz Wójs.

The only such laboratory

During his Thursday visit, the Prime Minister visited the Laboratory of Electromagnetic Compatibility, where measurements are performed, among others, of the parameters of radio, telecommunications and cable TV devices as well as of the effectiveness of electromagnetic shielding.

– I clearly see the development of the academic world and technical universities in Lower Silesia. It is all happening thanks to researchers and students. I am convinced that there is an excellent perspective for development opening for Polish science, and as representatives of the state budget we will certainly contribute to it – he added.

Mateusz Morawiecki also laid flowers at the monument to "All Co-creators, Defenders and Heroes of Solidarity". Among others there is a plaque dedicated to Dr. Kornel Morawiecki, the legend of the anti-communist opposition, who died on 30 September 2019. In the years 1973-2009, Kornel Morawiecki worked at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, at the Institute of Mathematics, and then at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science as an assistant professor and senior lecturer.

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